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news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching r t what me lucy catherine elf. well santa has been busy doing the rounds and hopefully your getting what you want for christmas although there's been more window shopping than people actually parting with their hard earned cash this time around now even the catholic church has tightened its belt the pope holding a more spartan last in st peter's basilica costs for this year's more frugal native a scene were mostly picked up by donors and for elsewhere around here up peter all of us been looking at whether the wish list of thousand charge could be just too much for santas elves to help with. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it's busiest time of the year but santa has taken a little bit of time out from delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me

here in central. well you have not come on the sled that i see no no it's just a segway it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century there and you've got some letters from the boys and girls that you're going to share with us something here ok all right now this one is come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirty. dear santa for christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reducing one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output from twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international monetary fund getting even more annoyed with us although we didn't make the whole thirty billion euros worth of savings we promised just recently we did try very hard. dimitri said marise. well who else has been writing to you oh well this one has come from somebody not

too far away from where we are right now this is come from a little girl and burn lynn with her christmas wishes for twenty thirty. thank you for the positive economic growth i asked for last. it has been very helpful this year it would be great if we could have more of the same just is there a way we can give less of our money away to the eurozone countries all the best angle america p.s. i also want to win the general election next year thank you of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us ones come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this year a new more super rich followed jerrod deputy you and left france we really need their seventy five percent income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola

and not find ourselves in the same trouble as demetrius thank you francois hollande . oh right well this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future sounds here's the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however now i'm ready to step back in leave this lead to success quite possibly out of the euro sincerely silvio berlusconi will have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're on minority list. these are all of the tea. party's been tracing the europeans austerity battles all year and will remind you of what we witnessed later this hour. the festive spirit takes on

a whole new meaning for britain's police and hospital staff as christmas revellers down a few too many drinks well for some i mean spending the holidays in a cell or a hospital ward sarah ferguson been out among the party goers. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little to mary but the christmas period once again upon us brings awareness campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing so the number of alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year it's costing the n.h.s. millions of pounds in dealing with the people who are coming three the hospitals and in the build up to christmas it really puts a strain on services such as the police and such as are ambulances now that's

a very sobering thought indeed we've come to the north of england to new castle to go out on the town and views of the sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been joining some people getting into the festive spirit to find out whether they're going to be drinking responsibly was a typical night. for you sorry but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to fill the young people hitting responsibly you know with that hello no everyone just gets up the mall. over eighty thing that is good for stress. and. responsibly yeah yeah well sometimes i'm not but i. i'm not tonight because of the good night out with a drink response report on or accusing you or heard tell me your school where you

can also. see apart from these guys you will be a prophet of god who want to you want to get more responsible over the internet are evil or is not food and people are over the age of twenty five not really both. of the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us that we came before. christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights break out ahead excessive drinking this is why a campaign is a calling on the government to really tighten up the policies to make sure that we keep seeing these increases in alcohol abuse in the k. but then i thought the government this year have really tried to target the sale of cheap alcohol campaign is a really calling on people to be very careful about how much they drink over the festive period so. there are fears that america's latest terror trial involves another victim of the notorious rendition program now are to have

brought you the story of several weeks ago after he went missing in africa having had his british citizenship revoked that out of nowhere he appeared going to new york courthouse an update now from our washington correspondent by nature. bhakti how she stands accused of providing material support to somali militant group al-shabaab how she was stripped of his british citizenship earlier this summer over accusations of his involvement with islamist extremists at the time he and his family tried to contest that decision they claim that m i five. to label him an islamic extremist if he refused to become an informant for british intelligence and spy on the muslim community shortly after his citizenship was revoked he went missing on the outskirts of mogadishu somalia and one of our reporters broke with his parents several months ago when they had no idea where their son was and they were very worried about him apparently all this time he'd been in u.s.

custody also on trial along with the ha she faces similar charges or two of the men swedish nationalists so all of these men are not u.s. citizens and yet they ended up here this is not the only case in new u.s. courts against alleged terrorists for acts committed overseas one of the things that many find alarming is how the u.s. finds smuggling foreign nationals in complete secrecy perfectly a lawful often keeping the families of those captured in in the dark for months as far as treating foreign nationals suspected of terrorism the u.s. has a set track record hundreds of people have been through the u.s. prison in guantanamo many of them were subject to torture the chief prosecutor at guantanamo and a george w. bush told me most of them were not terrorists and due to the extraordinary rendition program all kinds of people would end up there from different countries for different reasons stripped of their rights many human rights organizations have been vocal about a lawful practices at guantanamo and yet it's still open by the way despite

president obama's pledges to close the prison. well egypt's referendum results are due but as the clock ticking towards fresh protests opposition resistance to the draft no matter what more on that later in the program also for you. poor people who live in small now economically disadvantaged occupies substandard housing in the inner cities finding voters who have vocabulary behind the scenes. parties are really up to that's coming up for you after a short break. if you're passing through rushes to be a regent you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides

a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these wolves are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. this is what i was hoping

for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here using the old awards as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every place infant wald's with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia . but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean the oil and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. welcome

back while egypt is poised for more tension with the opposition promising to continue to fight against the constitution if it's passed the official referendum result is due later out on tuesday night the declaration was delayed because of fraud investigations and official tallies show over sixty percent voted yes to the isn't a space charter egypt has seen violent unrest and mass rival rallies in recent weeks between about the poems and supporters of the new draft the opposition claims the document undermines democratic freedoms and slammed the referendum as being quote fundamentally illegitimate the middle east history professor lawrence davidson says they have a reason to be worried. i think that the opposition and there are things democracy differently then yes there is a lark's but if you look at them obviously in the west particularly in the united states. and in europe. their constitutions of these

democracies is typically gary. writes minority groups on the other hand that time to him i did a constitutional guarantee to sort of. unusual or not normal lifestyle and i'm not going to be something that should realize we're just. so it's the rights of the minority going to worry so much in the world in each and they have a right to be worried. the pentagon is planning to sell high altitude spy drones to south korea the deal what provides for a global hawk pilotless aircraft but it still needs approval from the u.s. congress and it could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars political analyst while bowie's says that the punting deal could lead to a huge conflict with neighboring north korea was adamant about protecting its territory but if congress allows these drones to be sold to south korea what i

think will happen is that they will use these drones to monitor the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they could all sit with attention would be used to monitor north koreans your prey's new difficile of these but we have to remember that north korea is one of many times but its territorial integrity so i think will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate north korean air space this could potentially start a huge conflict and if you look at the results of the latest offering elections the president will work in hey she can model both. into the relationship with north korea and then we'll get easier but i think what this shows is that i purchased you these rooms you're having the energy to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory in the world i don't think north korea if we attack anyone in this it's the book

first and if we look at reports coming out of south korea or south korea and the scientists it looked at the satellite this morning you orbit around a small country and reports say that the machines were down on the galaxy three missile that they watched a certain food supply think what the real danger is and it is in north korea pursuing these tests and was you know having seen debris from one china or for looking for stuff where japan and china what people intention. well the u.s. is pledging to africa how to fight terrorism we report on our website how it's planning boy soldiers to thirty five african countries to prepare a local troops for any future crises and medical rowing threats from extremist groups. and the ballot vacuum for visitors to keep the masterpieces looking their best with the details of how they're keeping a pristine sistine chapel. well they held peaceful

rallies against the greed in the united states but investigators still regarded them as a possible terrorist threat recently released f.b.i. documents show that the bureau conducted surveillance on the occupy wall street movement which began back in september two thousand and eleven even before it spread across the country now the f.b.i. files show it did up knowledge the peaceful nature of the protests despite that police were accused by demonstrators of using excessive force to disperse rallies as well as sit ins in new york and other cities now the documents show the agency was aware of an assassination plot against activists but due to heavy redactions it's unclear who was behind that independent journalist because miller says the f.b.i. is siding with big businesses. they're using a very broad definition of violence to discuss domestic terrorism because obviously an act of terrorism is doing something that is going to kill a lot of people blowing something up something that's far more. terrible and life

threatening than just a couple of people assembled in civil protest so i think that they really just ran with the possibility that could get violent and use that to create to manufacture this threat of domestic terrorism because that's really what the f.b.i. has done a lot of these terrorism cases as you saw with muslim and arab communities with the f.b.i. spying on them a lot of it was really. feeding this information to people who were alleged terrorists but had never done anything and it's not happening with occupy right now surveillance is happening the whole time meaning that there were informants planted at the occupy camp both in new york and around the country and that the f.b.i. the department of homeland security were basically in partnership with corporate

america they're actually working with corporations and the stock exchange and the financial sector to protect them so it's pretty obvious who gets protected this society in the political theater as easy for parties to change the script to suit the scene and one supports not going away but our american voters willing to read between the lines and work out what's really meant are to have marina partnoy off finds out. the art of politics is made up of many things. handshakes smiles and a good arsenal of verbal camouflage the americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality americans have trouble facing the truth or as the late american comedian george carlin put it euphemistically language that conceals reality poor people used to live in the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and they're her.

no they don't have a negative cash flow position. and today america's love affair with semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators of america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that have a saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can't raise their taxes they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take anymore and puts the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap in the first world war that condition was called show shock today the

same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to wars where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when and so saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral that. it was to me the worst experience you know it's innocent men women children are killed in the collateral damage so that a real estate transaction our soldiers shooting each other has become known as friendly fire kidnapping and transferring a terrorist suspect is called extraordinary rendition and the torture america's war prisoners might endure is referred to as enhanced interrogation in most cases these new words are used by people who try to define an argument or frame it in a way that will support the position that they're advocating and during the last

u.s. presidential election a certain demographic of voters became otherwise known as without will win from asian voters bother went to twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information voters think low information voters are stupid people but you say low vibration voters because it sounds nice although in their defense it could be people who are just too busy you know with their lives or family in their work they don't have time to focus on the election until the very last minute and then they vote based on the hairstyle of the candidate running for president as america's political elite continues creating new vocabulary to soften the hard truth a greater focus could instead be put into asking why so many issues need to be rephrased before being presented to the public george carlin created comedy about the strategy but it was george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . well time for a look at some of the other stories making the news for you this hour. police in

bahrain have used tear gas on a more anti-government protesters continuing an intense crackdown on public gatherings the demonstrators want the prime minister to quit and for a democratically elected government and to us also say a leading human rights campaigner saeed use of will stay in jail for a further fifteen days he was caged for writing about the crackdown on twitter meanwhile the country has just wrapped up a gulf economic and military summit. a school bus has crashed in eastern china killing at least eleven preschool children their principal was behind the wheel wheel of the recall which had plunged into a pond and she was arrested for dangerous driving and on suspicion of overloading the bus the kindergarten will also be closed because it was found to be operating without a license. but also venezuelan president hugo chavez has reportedly improved quite a respiratory infection after his latest cancer surgery and the country's vice

president said on state television that child goes up and has yet to actually it's raised hopes that his january tenth an operation may still go ahead just a few months after his tight re-election vote. for him all right well as we begin to say goodbye to two thousand and twelve r.t.e. is remembering what the year has brought us today our news teams recall the austerity anger that took hold across europe. it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our

correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so waiting but also i thought still it's over some type of square and i just see the camera around behind the camera everybody else around me putting just must on you for moscow going to see your life before you can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd is shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use the elements of news on the court force you've got the tragic human stories of people who are driven to desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their livelihood just to chop away over to doctors most of. all people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment

figures especially amongst the young about the cost of the states the services and then you really get a sense of just how angry at how desperate people are they get the full of love that's doing to the country and so yes it's not bank in the middle of one of those big protest movements when the clashes break out. coming up cutting through the economics spam capital accounts financial check up with lauren lester coming up after the break. wealthy british style. but i'm not surprised to find.

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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for tuesday december eighteenth two thousand and twelve japanese pension funds are starting to invest in gold for the first time according to the wall street journal they're looking to mitigate the damage of market shocks and reduce the risks associated with currencies the paper says until recently they've invested in mostly domestic stocks and bonds will have more on metals with the gold antitrust action committees bill murphy and chris powell here in studio plus the f.c.c. has approved a j.p. morgan copper exchange traded fund reportedly the first one it's backed by physical copper and received the go ahead despite opposition from companies that actually use copper and some lawmakers who opposed it to now the concerns are that it could allow speculators to squeeze the market increase prices volatility and undermine price transparency for and dusty all metal will discuss the impact and the newtown school shooting.